Doom. Quake. Heretic. Hexen. Those four names will mean a world of nostalgia for any gamer over the age of 25 or so. These games were all pioneers of the FPS genre and they all followed a remarkably similar theme; they were dark Gothic nightmares filled with demonic horrors. Painkiller.…
Read MoreThere hasn’t been that many free-to-play games on the PS3 to date, but those that are there are generally definable as console games. Titles like From Dust and DC Universe Online are free-to-play, and haven’t necessarily been well received by the PS3 gaming community, but they are at least on…
Read MoreFrom the moment “Press Start” appears on the screen, players get a glimpse of what awaits them in Cloudberry Kingdom. The Kickstarter-funded side-scrolling platformer by Pwnee Studios features the customisable hero Bob as he traverses his way through various levels of increasing difficulty to the point of near-impossibility. The first…
Read MoreThe Tales series has a long history; 14 main games and a handful of side quests. Through that time there has been a remarkably consistent approach to game design and though there’s been general improvements and tweaks to the spreadsheets operating the game, for the player, there’s a familiarity about…
Read MoreWhile some people panic at the sight of a spider near them, Enigma Software Production’s Alien Spidy puts players in control of an alien spider as he searches the planet Earth for a fellow companion. He will have to navigate through various obstacles such as bugs, bats, and deadly plants…
Read MoreThe Dynasty Warriors franchise has fascinated me, from a gaming culture point of view. Here is a game that in its homeland of Japan consistently rates both with the critics and on the charts, and yet when it is released in the west there is always, inevitably, a vocal group…
Read MoreTrials HD meets a sandbox in a game that’s seriously flawed. I don’t really want to beat up on developer baKno’s Motorbike. Really, I don’t, but there’s just so much wrong with this game that I don’t think I can come up with anything positive to say about it. Motorbike…
Read MoreAs anyone who has ever read Digitally Downloaded knows, I am a massive fan of Tecmo Koei’s Warriors series. What people might not realise is that of all that franchises’ games, the Samurai Warriors series is my personal favourite. Those games quite literally inspired me to study Japanese history. Now…
Read MoreUp until today, Rockstar had only teased us with small bits of information as to what all Grand Theft Auto V has in store for us when it lands on retail selves on September 17 of this year. This has now changed, with Rockstar unleashing the very first gameplay trailer…
Read MoreIt took me all of five minutes to realise I was not going to enjoy my time with Blood Knights. In that first five minutes I was led through a tutorial dungeon which, in most games, introduces the characters and sets up the narrative by introducing a conflict. But at…
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